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Multiple industry insiders are starting to complain that their inventory of rare-earth minerals and magnets are starting to run low. Watch this space!
Masar Badil is organizing a Free Georges Abdallah campaign in North America. Link includes toolkit for organizing, contact information, and history of the prisoner Georges Abdallah, a Lebanese communist guerilla who has been held captive for 40 years in French prisons.
https://tariqeltahrir.org/2025/05/29/40-years-of-struggle-sign-the-call-to-free-georges-abdallah/
I know that at least some of you are involved in irl organizing 😉
Also Liam Cunningham, who played Davis Seaworth in Game of Thrones and the priest who talks with Bobby Sands in Hunger is on the ship too. Legitimately a good idea for famous people to go on this ship. Yeah Israel is bloodthirsty and doesn’t care about global opinion but their position is more precarious by the day, they will need to think twice about doing anything to the ship IMO.
hope they can defend themselves from getting boarded by the coast guard
Ford is trying to get SEZs, previously a tool of imperial extraction in the Global South, in Ontario. (They will still be tools of imperial extraction, but from treaty lands within Canada)
Forced evictions and seizure of property before company scrip... Elon is skipping a few steps of libertarianism!
i thought the whole point of putting shit like this in texas was to avoid zoning laws
Zoning laws that local government might control, sure, but zoning laws your corporation controls are two thumbs up from porky
A lot of criticism of this online. I've seen it in English and Arabic. I do have some questions though.
Is this a scandal in Chinese media? Also, Can anyone explain what the heck is happening with the Chinese foreign ministry that allows this to happen like this? They're not stupid, they must know this is a terrible optic...
They're not stupid, they must know this is a terrible optic...
With who? I doubt the chinese foreign ministry cares about its optics with the pro-palestinian movement. All they care about is having an embassy everywhere
People probably dont like it but i doubt its a scandal. Its just the status quo. As long as China or any country for that matter has normal diplomatic and trade relations with Israel their ambassadors there will meet with Israeli officials and ministers and post some vague "productive meeting" tweet on social media. China of course should take much harsher stances on Israel but this isnt surprising or some shift in the, bland 2 state position yes, China holds.
China has reduced military coopration and sales to Israel to practicaly zero compared to the early 2010s and has reduced investment in Israel by like >50% over the last 5-6 years but beyond that they predictably wont lead any economic or diplomatic effort or coercion against Israel. Both because its actualy near useless so long as the US and EU rabidly support Israel and Arab powers don’t get off their ass to do anything but mostly because of "non interference" foreign policy brainworms. Even if we assume China attempts to completely cut trade or even sanction Israel (which they should but obviously wont) i wonder what it would actualy accomplish. Israel itself doesn’t care what anyone else thinks so long as the US and EU support it and the US and EU will just do the opposite of whatever they think China is doing. The US and EU would pour whatever billions needed for Israel to absorb whatever economic harm from that and then most Chinese goods will be re-routed through a third party countries, either neighbouring arab countries that will do fuck all to join such an effort or bought and resold to Israel by the west. Israel aint that big and with the west fully bankrolling it and full access to global trade and western financial system they any unilateral chinese attempt at trade war against Israel wont amount to much. Supporting Israel is a drop in the bucket for the west economicaly and that wont change if they had to ramp this up a bit. It would be just symbolic from China's side. It would still be cool and good if they did it but anything short than full on nuclear economic warfare against eveyone involved, joined earnestly by other regional and world actors, wouldnt stop the Holocaust. Im not saying thats China's calculus and thats the reason they dont take aggresive economic actions against Israel, far from it. Im just wondering what would happen even if they were willing given the current geopolical realities
This is just the continuation of the Deng policy of never getting involved and keeping neutrality even if it makes them look bad
Deng policy of never getting involved and keeping neutrality
see also: line go up
What's happening is that China has been conducting business as usual and continued trading with Israel despite the genocide.
China's lack of meaningful response to Israeli crimes (and even continuing to trade with them) is probably their most inexcusable geopolitical offence. I know there's a sort of playing-both-sides thing here (as I believe China buys most of Iran's oil and is deepening trade with them all the time) but it's still abhorrent.
But even if you're a total psychopath who doesn't value human lives at all in geopolitical calculus - you see the mass graves of murdered children and go "whatever" - I still don't see any argument by which the modern-day Chinese state, with all its economic power, should continue having anything to do with Israel. Anything that Israel provides can and should be developed at home (and, to be honest, I can't imagine that anything that Israel provides them is a net good for humanity anyway). There's no reason to strengthen your direct world competitor in a hotly contested region by continuing to have ties with their genocidal outpost. At least with trading and interacting with Taiwan there's a calculation of exerting economic influence and not ceding ground to the US; there is literally no universe in all of god's creation in which Israel sides with China (and the anti-imperialist world more generally) over the US. Netanyahu will sooner defect to Iran than that happen.
The silver lining is that I suspect (though I don't have the figures on me) that China is economically and militarily helping out anti-Israeli forces relatively more than pro-Israeli ones. Still inexcusable.
The silver lining is that I suspect (though I don't have the figures on me) that China is economically and militarily helping out anti-Israeli forces relatively more than pro-Israeli ones.
China sells more goods to Israel than any other country on earth, and that is up 20% in 2024 from 2023, returning effectively to what baseline exports to Israel was before the war.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/israel-china-2024/
China is not helping out anti-Israeli forces more. It's business as usual and their diplomatic messaging right now is indistinguishable from someone like Emmanuel Macron, saying Israel is commiting war crimes and calling for 2-state solution but not actually doing anything to make that happen, all while continuing to trade with Israel.
probably their most inexcusable geopolitical offence
Supporting Islamists to own the Soviets in Afghanistan was pretty bad
Maybe they meant in the modern day. Because I would agree that was worse. As was siding with the US against Vietnam and with the Khmer Rouge.
Maybe they don't want to get heat from the US?
But they get shitloads of heat from the US anyway
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Washed.
The Chinese foreign ministry seems to be a den of liberal snakes
I fear for Chinese socialism if men like this can raise to positions of power, goofy fucks
I share that same fear. With more and more libs like Li Qiang (Premier since 2023) gaining influence and private capital making a comeback since the return of Jack Ma, the CPC has not been immune to the spread of liberal brain rot and opportunism. @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net has talked about this some time ago, and said they were losing faith in Xi's ability to curb private capital.
liberal brain rot and opportunism.
You might even say the party is falling to revisionism.
Israel has blocked a planned visit by a delegation of foreign ministers headed by Saudi Arabia, including representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Turkey, who were set to meet with Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Sunday.
- Telegram
It's always funny when Israel is so racist that they're incapable of even taking actions that would benefit themselves (in this case, allowing Muslim country representatives to visit their appointed comprador). It's like how they're bombing Syria despite their new leader licking the dogshit off their boots; a better plan would be to strengthen them and reduce the bombing so as to not create the conditions for a new Syrian resistance to rise up in opposition, but they're just so utterly short-sighted.
I think from the Israeli perspective, none of what you say really matters, because in their view they are dealing with insects, not human beings. You don’t have respectful diplomacy with insects.
"Forum of Supporters of the Struggle against Modern Practices of Neocolonialism - "For the Freedom of Nations! also known as FFN is a Russian-led inter-party movement uniting various political parties of the states of the Second and Third World with the stated aim of countering modern manifestations of colonialism.
The movement was officially created in February 2024 on the initiative of the United Russia Party after the founding General Assembly of the "Forum of Supporters of the Fight against Modern Practices of Neocolonialism" was held in Moscow. Since then, political parties from more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and the CIS have joined the movement.
Chairman: Dmitry Medvedev
Countering modern neocolonial practices is understood by supporters as the main goal of the "For the Freedom of Nations!" Movement. These practices include the imposition of sanctions and restrictive measures, weaponization of currencies, cultural indoctrination, falsification of history, information and psychological campaigns, etc. The Movement positions itself as a Forum for consolidation of the political movements from countries of the Global South.
Some of it's members are: Algeria's FNL, Azerbaijan's New Azerbaijan Party, Belarus' Belaya Rus, Brazil's Workers' Party (PT), Venezuela's PSUV, South Africa's ANC, China's CPC, Laos' Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Indonesia's GOLKAR, Serbia's Serbian Peoples' Party, Myanmar's Union Solidarity and Development Party and many others.
So is this part of BRICS or just some Russian exclusive friendly political parties club?
It does seem very "the other side" focused.
More geopolitical than ideological I suppose... but damn
Well ideologically speaking countries that want less “world policing” and more internal freedom.
I'm just surprised somewhat 50% of the countries' parties I see are of socialist or at least similar orientation, along with being anti- (western hegemony).
I guess it's the fact liberal conservative parties of similar geopolitics are one in kind and non-western socialist parties are more aligned to them that makes the case.
Russian forces liberated 13 more settlements this week (four in Sumy oblast, two in Kharkov oblast, and seven in the Donetsk People’s Republic): https://tass.com/politics/1966097
Plus, another collection of recent Russian FPV drone strikes on Kiev regime firing positions and military equipment: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/fpv-1.mp4
Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi: 'The US-mediated peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is a model that the entire region should follow, to guarantee enduring stability and ending the cycle of vengeance and violence, and every nation should persue a just peace [with Israel]'
- Telegram
damn nasser needs to come back asap
Holy cuck
An update on the F-15E Strike Eagles conducting Combat Air Patrols (CAP) and Defensive Counter Air (DCA) at Diego Garcia and also in the Middle East and West Asia in general, called the CENTCOM area of responsibility by the United States.
A few days ago, the US Air Force trialed a new anti drone and cruise missile loadout on one of their testbed F-15Es, equipping it with 42 APKWS laser guided rockets. The APKWS laser guided rockets offer a cheap and high magazine capacity firing solution to drone and cruise missile swarms (they cost 20K USD each and work by equipping a guidance kit to unguided Hydra rockets, kind of like equipping a JDAM kit to an unguided bomb), as seen by equipping 42 of them on one aircraft, with three seven shot pods on each wing. I did a more detailed post on APKWS here. What's interesting is that the positioning of the rocket pots still leaves eight hardpoints open (that can be used by missiles or bombs), four on the conformal fuel tanks and four next to the rocket pods.
Now this similar loadout appeared on an F-15E at Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan, in active service. In addition to the 42 APKWS laser guided rockets, 4 AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared guided air to air missiles are mounted on hardpoints next to the rocket pods, and 4 AIM-120 radar guided air to air missiles are mounted on the hardpoints on the conformal fuel tanks. This allows for a potential of 50 engagements per aircraft.
With this capability going from testing to active use in a matter of days, with it being publicly posted on social media platforms, it suggests that the US is signalling towards Iran, that they're making preparations to defend from a large scale drone attack from Iran should that occur in response to an Israeli/US attack on Iran, or as a pre-emptive strike.
brave hamas decided to cast their lot with certainty, hope trump fucking nukes tel-aviv in some complicated insurance scheme. linky to tweet, fuck bbc
I smell regime change brewing in Nepal. Look at that. The based juche party should just take over, the left wing party in nepal got voted out and the sucdems have been trying to undo a lot of the left's work.
I do not follow Nepal very closely. However, my understanding is that all of the country's major political parties are republican. The monarchist party only got around 5% of the vote in the previous elections. So I suspect that any Western-backed monarchist coup attempt would be very likely to fail.
Calling them the "ousted monarchy" is certainly a journalism school euphemism for the crown prince of Nepal Romanov-ing his own ruling parents and family.
That said, the Trump administration specifically has had a long-running fixation on flipping Nepal into a Himalayan Baltic/Ukraine against China (and India as well, for that matter) since his first term. They got Nepal to sign onto the USAID "Millennium Challenge Compact" (the same name borrowed from the wargame against Iran) during Trump 1 and it was ratified by Nepal's then-Communist Party coalition led parliament (Maoist-Centre and United-Socialist) in 2022. I wouldn't be surprised if the effect of that $550 million agreement is primed to begin making waves in Nepal now, especially now with Trump 2 and the libs now leading the government.
The Tricontinental wrote a pretty thorough piece on this: https://thetricontinental.org/asia/ticaa-issue-1-the-millennium-challenge-corporation/
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